EDITquoter from my colleague:"You should not annoy me, your teacher [that much]. If I bite you you will became teachers yourself!"(No, I wasn't bitten by a teacher in my youth. Or was I? How could I be sure?!)

EDITquoter from my colleague:"You should not annoy me, your teacher [that much]. If I bite you you will became teachers yourself!"(No, I wasn't bitten by a teacher in my youth. Or was I? How could I be sure?!)

Anatoly, as we say in the US, "It takes one to know one." (Retired teacher, here. )

This challenge has spawned imaginative graphics programs, both on this thread and on the graphics board. Thanks so much for creating it!

Russian is "Fisherman recognizes other Fishermen from afar"(versed asrybak rybakavidit izdaleka)EDIT proverbs could not be translated 100% accurately Layers of meaning and history makes that impossible.

...and it so happens my surname is 'Fisher'!!Like Russians, we have lots of names like Smith (Kuznetsov) that come from ancient occupations, but don't have patronymics. That we can compare proverbs is a bit like 'convergence' in evolution. We're all the same 'under the skin'.